UNC Jihadi Will Plead Guilty
Charles Johnson
Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 3:40 pm PDT • Views: 233
Mohammed Taheri-Azar, who drove a rented SUV into a crowd of students at UNC-Chapel Hill intending to kill as many as possible “to avenge Muslim deaths around the world,” is planning to plead guilty. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.)
HILLSBOROUGH — The man accused of driving a rented SUV onto the UNC campus in March and striking nine people told a judge he plans to plead guilty to the charges against him.
Mohammed Taheri-Azar entered the courtroom this morning to ask that he be allowed to represent himself. A judge had ordered the public defender’s office to work with him while it was determined whether he was competent.
But after being told he would have to submit to a psychiatric evaluation in order to do that, the 23-year-old said he would rather keep his court-appointed lawyer.
Taheri-Azar told Superior Court Judge Carl Fox he had met a few times with the psychiatrist and psychologist and “they don’t appear to be very good psychologists and psychiatrists in my oinion.”
Taheri-Azar has said in letters and in a 911 call that he wanted to kill people to avenge Muslim deaths around the world when he drove a rented SUV through The Pit, the main gathering spot on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, March 3.
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